Weekly Report - 12 May 2016 (WR-16-18)

Secondary students have forced the departure of the head of Paraguay’s education & culture ministry (MEC) appointed by President Horacio Cartes as part of his ‘national team’ cabinet when he assumed office in 2013. The fifth change to Cartes’s cabinet came after days of protests and the taking over of more than 100 secondary schools across the country by students demanding major changes at the MEC and increased spending to drive up the quality of education in Paraguay.